Private Sector Quotes by Charles Dallara, Mitt Romney, Vince Cable, Tim Griffin, Michelle Obama, Steve Bullock and many others.
We can no longer contemplate a world in which public or private sector funds are used to bail out or recapitalize failing firms.
For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.
My administration will continue to engage the private sector to increase economic opportunities and look for ways to improve our already top notch business environment.
The private sector is the innovation engine of our economy, and more private-sector businesses and organizations than ever are recognizing that training, promoting, and retaining women is essential to their continued competitiveness – and their bottom line.
Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.
Private sector development and the creation of small businesses spur investment, jobs, opportunity, and hope. It empowers the market to meet local needs, whether for food, basic goods, or services.
The private sector is first of all much larger than the public sector. The waste we see in that sector does not result from the fact that people spend their money carelessly. Mostly, it occurs because what one family must spend to achieve its goals often depends heavily on what other families spend.
If we are to make poverty history, we must have the active participation of States, civil society and the private sector, as well as individual volunteers.
When private sector, government, social, and philanthropic leaders apply innovative partnerships and technologies to address social challenges and build sustainable communities, the impact is multiplied.
Many people think that the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sectors as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It’s not. The U.S. federal government created all these sectors.
I’d spent 25 years in government when I left the Defense Department back in ’93, decided I’d go spend the rest of my career in the private sector, and then the president tapped me to come be his running mate. And it’s been a remarkable experience. I wouldn’t have missed it for the world.
We don’t measure our people’s success in how they’re doing in government. We measure how they are doing in the real world and the private sector economy.
I support the state, but not the state-run economy. The state should intervene only to create the conditions necessary for the private sector to thrive.
This is something – we have to have the best defensive capabilities. We need to coordinate all of our efforts with the private sector. We need to give them liability relief so that we can do that.
It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
A woman caring for her children; a woman striving to excel in the private sector; a woman partnering with her neighbors to make their street safer; a woman running for office to improve her country – they all have something to offer, and the more our societies empower women, the more we receive in return.
Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector.
The Barrow Administration, with its misguided philosophy of big government wanting to own or control every facet of economic activity in Belize, has depressed and squeezed out the private sector. The inevitable result is mass firing of workers, foreclosures, and downsizing.
Government should take management lesson from private sector.
From nuclear waste to Northern Rock and Metronet, risk is never transferred to the private sector – the state will always be forced to step in where there is a clear public interest.
When I was in the private sector, one characteristic that differentiated the best entrepreneurs from the others was that they were not in it for the stock options, but for a mission – to deliver something that was helpful… Every entrepreneurial journey, it turns out, is like this.
To distract from the president’s disappointing record, Team Obama has decided to base their entire campaign on attacking the private sector and Mitt Romney‘s career as a successful businessman.
The three top issues have to be restoring jobs and private sector job growth to our country, getting the entitlement mess under control, and restoring back to our country a sense of self-confidence that Americans can achieve whatever we want to achieve.
Anything that strengthens the private sector vs. the state is protective of personal freedom.
Economic management involves the operation of economic frameworks in real time – for example, in the private sector, the management of complex financial institutions or, in the public sector, the day-to-day supervision of those institutions.
Mitt Romney understands the private sector, he understands how profit is created, and he isn’t embarrassed by it.
History has shown that a government’s redistribution of shrinking wealth, in preference to a private sector’s creation of new sources of it, can prove more destructive than even the most deadly enemy.
I think in the ’50s, the percentage of Americans employed by the private sector who were in unions was above 30 percent. And now it’s in the single digits, so it plummeted. And with the plummeting of unions came the weakening of an organized working-class voice in politics.
Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation – fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.
I am now a member of the private sector. I’m happy. I’ve got a little foundation. You never say never, but I may have had my last race and that was the Presidential race. I think that you only get one shot.
We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which… public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.
We must never forget that it is the private sector – not government – that is the engine of economic opportunity. Businesses, particularly small businesses, flourish and can provide good jobs when government acts as a productive partner.
The biggest culprits in the housing fiasco came from the private sector, and more specifically from a mortgage industry that was out of control.
There is so much more demand for Formula One than it can supply. You have governments investing in circuits all over the world, and the private sector sometimes has a tough time competing with that.
You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.
No matter how much the private sector crows that corporate tax breaks will lead to more jobs or robust economic activity, such benefits rarely materialize.
I had attracted large investments into information technology and built infrastructure in Hyderabad, including India‘s first greenfield airport, apart from attracting the country’s first private sector investments in power generation.
When I first left university, I thought about going into the private sector. But I discovered when I went to interview that I could only have a career in the back office, or doing HR. The attitude was, “My dear lady, you cannot possibly think about going on the board.
What is obvious is that Donald Trump is comfortable with an approach to running his presidency based on what worked for him in the private sector.
It would be fun to have someone in the White House who has worked in the private sector… and someone who understands that wealth creation is a good thing and they want more of it. Wealth is good.
When WHO works with the private sector, the Organization takes all possible measures to ensure its work to develop policy and guidelines is protected from industry influence.
At the end of the day, the best sanctuaries are places like the Performing Animal Welfare Society in Northern California, where he really provides his tigers large spaces. And there are people in the private sector that do a really good job with animals.
America’s private sector job creators need elected leaders to lead and get out of the way.
Small businesses create half of the jobs in the private sector.
The governments are seen to be less effective than they used to be. The private sector is perceived as being so much more efficient, and so globalization implies a transfer of power to the private sector.
The government should not be in control of the private sector. You create opportunity, you create business, you create development, you hand it to the investor and start creating something new.
Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
Mitt Romney is a businessman, a turnaround artist, a CEO. That is who he is. The former governor has experience in the public and private sector.
I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.
I believe we can do more in making the President’s vision for space exploration a reality by awarding cash prizes to encourage greater participation of the private sector in the national space program.
Since the government creates no wealth, it can only transfer the wealth required to hire people. Even if the government creates a million jobs, that is not a net increase in jobs, when the money that pays for those jobs is taken from the private sector, which loses that much ability to create private jobs.
Some people don’t support economic development. There are people in the Assembly who say there is no economic development possible; leave it to the private sector.
What I’d like to do is continue a private sector, free market Main Street types of policies. And those include less regulation. They include a fairer, flatter tax system.
I’m a very big proponent of cloud. We’ve used it a lot in private sector, and as far as we can tell, it is not only more efficient, it’s probably also more secure for lots of very complicated technical reasons. I think it’s a very important thing for government to do, and also to have systems that talk to each other.
The government doesn’t run the economy. The economy is run by the private sector. The job of the president is to ensure we [the state] have policies that allow the private sector to grow and prosper.
Confronted with economic problems, politicians always blame the private sector first … [even] blaming the problem on the solution.
The great increase in longevity has produced a surge in the desire to accumulate assets for retirement. It has outpaced the ability of the private sector to produce assets, so we need a larger government debt.
I built private sector jobs all my life.
If we have an honest discussion on whether the war on poverty should be fought with welfare or with economic growth in the private sector, Democrats will lose black votes.
As conservatives, we support free market principles and believe the private sector provides solutions that the government cannot.
Unfortunately, military servicemen and servicewomen often have a difficult time transitioning to jobs in the private sector once their duty is complete.
I spent ten years in the private sector, actually learning how business works. I’m the governor of Ohio, and I inherited a state that was on the brink of dying. And we turned it all around with jobs and balanced budgets and rising credit and tax cuts, and the state is unified, and people have hope again in Ohio.
Adopting and promoting sustainable production practices require concerted effort, something which in practice is too often missing or insufficient. Making this shift at the scale required demands forward-looking leadership in the public and private sectors alike.
You cannot have development in today’s world without partnering with the private sector.
To amplify our efforts, USDA is joining with First Lady Michelle Obama in aggressively promoting the ‘Let’s Move’ campaign, which will combat the epidemic of childhood obesity through a comprehensive approach that builds on effective strategies, and mobilizes public and private sector resources.
The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector.
I ran for Congress not because I was having a mid-life crisis. I left the private sector because I saw a looming financial crisis that was coming to this country. It’s unsustainable.
Anything that the private sector can do, the government can do it worse.
Obviously, our business leaders yield enormous influence on our political leaders, and they have a duty to use that influence for the greater good. But beyond that, the private sector depends on having healthy, educated and productive workers.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American, and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
Personally, I liked working for the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn’t have to produce anything. You’ve never been out of college. You don’t know what it’s like out there! I’ve worked in the private sector … they expect results!
One of the best ways countries can combat poverty is to use development assistance to promote a growing private sector, in which the poor can fully participate.
For American foreign aid to become more effective, it must embrace the power of partnerships, access the transformative nature of free enterprise, and leverage the abundant resources that can come from the private sector.
Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You’re less concerned with… toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
I think in the end the big issue is that the private sector still needs more help. And the answer is not more big government. I know in my state our reforms allowed us to protect firefighters, police officers, and teachers.
The post-crisis perception, at least in the media, appears to be one of Americans being held down by Wall Street, by big companies in the private sector, and by the wealthy. Capitalism is on trial. I see it a little differently. If a lender offers me free money, I do not have to take it.
When government ‘creates jobs’ by taking money from the private sector and ‘investing’ in favored projects, it is not truly productive activity. Rather, the government has preempted the economic process, forbidding it to serve consumers so that it can instead serve the objectives of politicians and bureaucrats.
All developmental activities for the common man such as education, healthcare, shelter and food distribution should be handled by reputed private sector institutions. It should be a competitive market in order to prevent the formation of monopolies.
You should not be subjected to the pressures, the intimidation, whether by Government or by the private sector, which would force you into self-censorship.
I know it’s going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we’re in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.
Governments must take on the central role of creating an investment climate across Africa that supports enterprise and the role of the private sector and provides a clear and predictable economic policy framework for business to succeed.
When I was in the private sector, I found it immensely useful to go out and talk to customers and co-workers.
The purpose of the Senate is to keep 100 middle aged knuckleheads out of the private sector where they can do real harm.
We are a mixed economy. We will remain a mixed economy. The public and private sector will continue to play a very important role. The private sector in our country has very ample scope and I am confident that India’s entrepreneurs have the capacity, and the will to rise to the occasion.
If you give me $100bn now, I can’t use it. There is not only money, there is talent and experience. That’s why we need the private sector.
We’ve been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.
We will shortly become like Germany, France, the United Kingdom, or Sweden – a socialist democracy in which the government dominates the economy, determines private-sector priorities and offers a vastly expanded range of services to many more people at much higher taxes.
This is the 21st-century paradox: Even as political democracy has become the intellectual default mode for much of the world, the private sector usually trumps the public one when it comes to accommodating consumer choice.
Let us learn from the lessons of September 11 and not wait for a major strike before we act. We must work together – Democrats and Republicans, Congress and the White House, government and the private sector – to make our country a safer and more prosperous place.
I want to get America’s private sector growing and I know how to do it.
Major investment decisions have become too important to be left to the private sector.
Republican governors are leading the way in helping the private sector create new jobs, reforming government and getting our economy back on track.
We cannot get serious about helping the private sector create quality jobs without focusing first on the main drivers of our economy – the American middle class and those struggling to enter it.
Im looking for leaders who are going to go to Washington for a season, not career politicians. People who understand that the strength of America comes from the private sector, not Washington, D.C.
You know, it doesn’t take a genius in the private sector to know that you can save literally hundreds of billions of dollars in federal spending if you can make it more responsive. That’s the main job.
One of the advantages of getting elected governor when you’re 58 instead of 38 is you have some mileage on you and part of that means some history and some relationships with people who have spent a fair amount of their career in the public and in the private sector.
National security is a place where the private sector could be helpful because the government is woefully behind the technology curve. But secondly, the bureaucratic processes that have been in place since 9/11 are woefully inadequate as well.
When our state agencies work together, share resources and partner with the private sector to help connect businesses looking to hire with individuals actively seeking employment, Alabamians can rest assured we are doing our best to improve their quality of life.
The U.S. is the gold standard for clean air and clean water. We reached that point through private sector innovation and cooperation between Washington and the states to implement our nation’s environmental laws.
Medicare provided guaranteed equal coverage, something that the private sector could not.
Innovation means taking risks, and that is where the private sector can play a role.
The fundamental problem is that President Obama has grown government. He has grown the private sector jobs.
New Labour has deregulated, liberalised and privatised – but every time the private sector fails it is the taxpayer who pays.
I think anybody who knows anything about South Africa and the South African economy would know that one of the big constraints to growth and development is skills shortages. So all of us, need to come at this thing as vigorously as is possible and, of course, the private sector has the capacity to take it on board.
I don’t believe that the problems in the VA are necessarily about money. When I look back over the problems of the VA over the past decade, this is fundamentally a system that hasn’t kept up with modernization in the way that the rest of health care in the private sector has.
What you earn depends on what you learn.
As you know, I spent 30 years of my life in the private sector.
With 1.7 million private sector jobs lost and half a million jobs shipped overseas over the past three years, we must take action to spur job creation and restore economic prosperity.
Big Brother in the form of an increasingly powerful government and in an increasingly powerful private sector will pile the records high with reasons why privacy should give way to national security, to law and order, to efficiency of operation, to scientific advancement and the like.
The private sector enjoys tremendous freedom in the U.S, as it should. With freedom, however, comes responsibilities.
There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.
Sustainable jobs are created by the private sector.
A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.
Because the private sector has evolved processes and metrics for growth over many generations, for-profit models are more likely to efficiently accomplish their goals.
The way to create jobs is to encourage private sector job creators.
During my time growing a company in the private sector, one of my guiding principles was to meet and hear feedback from as many customers as possible.
If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.
Isn’t it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
The ingenuity and creativity of the private sector is essential to meeting American’s needs for a skilled work force.
It takes four private-sector jobs to support every public-sector employee.
Washington State has a strong tradition of a positive relationship – positive working relationship between labor and management, whether in the private sector or the public sector. It needs to continue to be that way.
On climate and clean energy, government sets the international framework, and the private sector uses that framework to do what it does best: innovate, create, and drive global progress.
I focused on jobs. I built private sector jobs all my life. That’s what the race was about. Who was going to build private sector jobs? My opponent who never had one? Or me? That’s why I won last night.
Careful economic research has shown public-sector workers receive a level of compensation, pension benefits, and retiree health coverage in excess of what comparable workers in the private sector enjoy. In some instances, the total premium can be 30 percent or higher.
I’m a liberal, but I think there’s so much that the private sector can do and does do.
Theft and corruption in the private sector is as bad as that in government and must be dealt with decisively by law enforcement agencies.
We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn’t.
We need legislation that encourages increased competition and tort reform and combats fraud, waste, and abuse. This would drive down health care costs, provide more ‘bottom line‘ for our small businesses and lead to more private sector job growth.
President Obama’s assault on the free-enterprise market and venture capitalists is anti-American and shows his greatest insecurity: his lack of private sector experience and his inability to understand the economy and help businesses thrive in these uncertain economic times.
Jobs are created in the private sector. Not by the president or the government unless they’re government jobs.
By giving every child a fair start, we are improving our collective future, including the private sector’s ability to find talent in a very competitive global marketplace.
To foster entrepreneurship, expansion and job creation, more leaders at all levels of government have to demonstrate some understanding of what it takes to build and grow businesses in the private sector.
Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector’s work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.
When commercial banking opened up for the private sector, I set up the retail-banking division for ICICI and grew it substantially. I then ran the international side of the ICICI Bank for a few years.
If the private sectors are about markets and the public sectors are about governments, then the plural sector is about communities.
It is always and everywhere the province of the central bank to monetize any spending, the government’s or the private sector’s, by printing enough money to pay for it in depreciated dollars.
In Madison‘s famous formulation in the Federalist, constitutional restrictions on government assume that we “first enable the government to control the governed.” If the public authorities can be outgunned or bribed, the vibrancy of the private sector can be pathological.
We ought to start running the government like a private-sector business. I have that ability as CEO of our companies. I have line item vetoes, and if I didn’t, we’d probably be out of business by now.
In our country, the vast majority of our critical infrastructure and intellectual property is of course in the hands of the private sector.
Unlike government entities, the private sector has the technical knowhow and experience to build and operate complex communications systems.
The fastest growing occupation in the private sector is security guards. The fastest growing occupation in the public sector is prison guards. (1992)
The private sector is doing fine.
My own belief is that the way we grow the economy, create jobs, create wealth is in the private sector. The government doesn’t do that.
We should enable the private sector to engage in self-defense in the cyber world like we do in the physical world.
We know that we have to have the right combinations of government policies and private sector energy and dynamism. Getting that balance right is what I know President Obama has tried to do, and at every turn he’s been stopped.
If taxes and government spending are both slashed, then the salutary result will be to lower the parasitic burden of government taxes and spending upon the productive activities of the private sector.
Pemex becomes a productive company of the state, but it will have competition and can make associations with the private sector.
People working in the private sector should try to save money. There remains the possibility that it may someday be valuable again.
There are hardly any private sector employees who get both a 401k and a pension. There’s just no need that Congress should get both.
Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order – and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
Ben Carson seems pretty proud that he knows how big the Medicare budget is. All that money goes to the private sector, but Carson seems to think the private sector would do a lot better if…something. I’m not quite sure what.
The Obama administration is an affront to every freedom-loving American,and a threat to every private sector job in this country.
SpaceX has reopened the cosmos, and the space race is back on, only this time it is in the private sector.
I like the fact that Donald Trump has been in the private sector. I like that he’s had to make a payroll. I like that he’s had to do projects.
I favor a system where students in publicly funded institutions make a commitment: if they do well in the private sector, they will revert a certain percentage of their income to the education sector; and if they devote some years to public service, their debt will be forgiven.
Britain‘s generosity in the world has allowed us to help the poorest countries to get on the road to industrialisation through economic development and private sector investment in the world’s most difficult frontier markets, where jobs and economic opportunities are desperately needed.
By giving the leadership to the private sector in a capitalistic society, we’re going to measure the value of art by how many products we can sell.
In the eight years before I became governor, there was zero net private sector job growth in New Jersey. Zero. For eight years.
To know that children are suffering and going without food is intolerable in a society such as ours. I hope that all our leaders, in both the public and private sectors, will work tirelessly to eradicate hunger. We all have a responsibility to bring back life to our most precious natural resource.
We want the private sector to be able to invest. The private sector works quite well.
I’ve got cabinet experience, military experience, and private sector experience.
For some people, work is the only safe haven from abuse. So all employers in businesses big and small, whether in the public or private sector, should be encouraged to create safe spaces at work where staff suffering domestic abuse can talk to an appropriately qualified person who can provide advice and offer support.
The money has to go to the federal government because the federal government will spend that money better than the private sector will spend it.
The private sector can go forward, if it must, with destruction of embryos for questionable and ethically challenged science. But spend the people’s money on proven blood cord, bone marrow, germ cell, and adult cell research.
I’ve always been progressive on social issues: pro-choice, pro-gun control, and pro-gay rights – even when I was a Republican. The big difference is that I once believed the private sector would address America’s social problems. But then I saw firsthand that this wasn’t going to happen.